ZOOLOGY. 
CXCI 
10. Phoca Vitulina, Common Seal. 
A seal was killed in Baffin’s Bay whilst sleeping on a fragment of ice, 
which agreed in all respects with the description of the P. Vitulina in the 
Fauna Groenlandica, so far as it goes, the relative proportion of the toes not 
being noticed in that work. In this individual the middle toe of the fore 
flipper was the longest, the others on each side decreasing in length, so that 
the two exterior were half an inch shorter than the middle one. This forma- 
tion does not agree with the general accounts of authors of the P. Vitulina, 
but is equally inapplicable to any other described species ; it does not indeed 
accord with the generic character of the Phoca in the Regne Animate. In 
the hind flipper the exterior toes were the longest, and were connected by 
a thick membrane, containing three other slender and shorter toes. 
A young seal, which was given by the master of a whaler to the officers 
of the Alexander, one of the ships on the former voyage, became so entirely 
domesticated and attached to the ship, that it was frequently put into the 
sea, and suffered to swim at perfect liberty, and when tired would return of 
itself to the boat’s side to be taken in. 
Seals were very abundant whilst the ships remained in Davis’ Strait and 
Baffin’s Bay ; amongst them the P. Barbata and P. Groenlandica were believed 
to be recognised, but were not killed. Very few were seen after the entrance 
of the Expedition into the Polar Sea, in consequence of there being so little 
open water. 
11. Trichecus Rosmarus. Walrus. 
A young male not full grown was killed in Davis’ Strait, being in 
length, from the nose to the extremity of the hind flipper, ten feet three 
inches, and weighing 1,384 Tbs. This animal is so well known that a particular 
description is unnecessary. The number of grinders were five on each side in 
